Sam Hunt Quotes

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

I don’t expect anyone to just sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.

You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their opinion. It's no fun arguing with a closed-minded person.

Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.

We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.

If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth.

I'm a big believer in debate and difference of opinion.

I find that quite enjoyable, trying to see the downsides of someone.

If you agree with everything I have said, then I have failed.

If you disagree with me about a position I have taken, or what I've done, tell me, argue with me, debate. Sometimes, right and good are not that clear; at other times, it is only deliberate and respectful debate that leads us to understand what road we should take.

I think debate is good. Everyone has an opinion, and it's definitely healthy to voice those.

I actually find it a lot easier to interview people I don't agree with because I'm far more curious about how they've arrived at that place.

I think I've always had that orientation to try to understand the humanity behind people with whom I disagree.

I spend a lot of time bathing in a glow of consensus, but you have to be willing to say something to people who might not agree with you and take the consequences of what follows.

You have to learn to have discourse with people you don't necessarily agree with.

The biggest gains come from associating with people u DONT agree with!

Allowances can always be made for your friends to disagree with you. Disagreement, vehement disagreement, is healthy. Debate is impossible without it. Evil does not question itself, only hope questions itself. Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be broken and are. Often. Like when a bumblebee flies or an ancient regime is toppled.

We must learn to outgrow our egos in exchange for constructive dialogue rather than debate. In addition, we must be capable of stating problems and proposing solutions clearly and succinctly, without distortion of meaning or misunderstanding, even when these solutions are radically opposed to accepted norms.

When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.

We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.

I think it's interesting to me to talk to people who don't agree with me all the time.

I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.